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A delicious concoction to delight and startle the ear, where Schoenberg rubs shoulders with Cole Porter, Madeleine Dring with Gershwin, while Jeremy Nicholas’s brilliantly punning pieces prove that the traditions of Flanders & Swann are alive and ...» More

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My dear lady’s cat is a charming creature, Alive with dark electricity; While my bald head is my notable feature— Shining and smooth and silvery. My beloved is languid, a lady of leisure, She lounges all day in her easy chair. Caressing her cat gives her infinite pleasure— My God, she loves stroking its black velvet hair.

At night when I’m calling she likes me to stay late, And there her cat lies luxuriantly. She feeds meringues to her purring playmate, Which spurns my approaches disdainfully. And then as a pleasantry, to amuse her, I hide my bald head from my darling’s sight: I wear her black cat like a warm fur hat, While she strokes it softly and laughs with delight.